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1. The Information Council of the Americas (iNCA) Df 620 Gravier Street, -
New Orleans, Louistana, was. recently opened as a source of foreign Intelligence
information on the radio broadcasting industry in Latin America, The current
program of INCA is primarily concerned with the dissemination of taped record~
ings of anti-Communist material, called Truth Tapes, to certain radio broad-
casting stations in Latin America and North America for use as a weapon against
Communist penetration In the Americas. {ts headquarters are located at 620
Gravier Street, Hew Orleans, Louisiana 70130. You will find the names of its
officers, directors, and consultants given on the enclosed letterhead of the.

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2. We have been in recent contact with Edward Scannell Butler, Executive
Vice President and Staff Director, and have received his assurances of. whole-
hearted cooperation in our agency's mission. {Yesterday we examined all of. the
wast Files of correspondence between Mr. Butler and personnel of various radio~
ce tations in 16 Latin American count ries.| {In order to build up a market for

; the Truth Tapes program in Latin America, Mr. Butler first obtained from the

appropriate consul in New Orleans a list of the radio stations in operatisn in
his country. He next wrote the administrative personnel of these stations
about the anti-Communist purpose of INCA and offered ta supply each station
with Truth Tapes. Those stations requesting them were then provided with a
series of the tapes. Qne or two years later, Mr. Sutter sent the participating
station a questionnaire designed to elicit information. about audience response
to the Trutn Tapes program. Copies of the first questionnaire and of a revised
one are attached for your information. Judging by the responses we read, the
{NCA correspondence files will provide a limited amount of information; dated
304 and 1355, en the identification of radio stations in Latin America which
are broadcasting Truth Tapes, their addresses, ithe names of key personnel, the -
identification of stations not responding to the INCA offer, sizes of audiences,
and their responses, fa the case gf Uruguay, the exchange of correspondence
betweeniMr, Gutler and (Or. Martin AY queo~Narancio fontained information abaut
the polifical orientation of Key radia personnel “tn Montevideo fHQ-1T067L.
This example, towever, is an exception, since the files contain virtually no

Jetatled political information of significance,

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Ar, Butter mentioned yesterday that, tnasmuch as he was again revising
ues tio yanatre, he would welecoae sur sujestions abvaut additional tonics.’ We

sugested questions designed to elicit technical information about ‘the station
and its equi pre ant, such as descriptions (manufacturer, type, model) of trans-
mitter, receiver, antenna type and power, frequencies and Frequency range, reli-
ability of equipment, nornal and emergency power sources, remote pick-up arrange-
ments, etc. We stressed of course vane none of these topics should be introduced
into the questionnaire unless Mr. Butler was convinced of their suitability for
his immediate purpose as well as for the long-term propaganda aim of his organt-
zation. He stated that our suazgestions were entirely proper and, in his opinion,
were reasonable requests that would not arouse the station manager's curiosity.
We pointed out to Mr. Butler that, while information fabout key personnel and
their political orientation,) about the station's adainistrative policies, etc.,
was of prime importance tous, these subjects obviously could not be fatroduced

into the questfonnaire. He agreed that [t would be betfer to elicit such infor-
-mation in another manner, as he kad done with{Dr. Miqueo-Narancio,Pobut because
of his very heavy responsibilities, he did not hava time-to-devefop similar
‘sources of informatian in each of the other 15 countries.

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4, tt occurs to us that you or a possible consumer could assist us by

; suggesting other appropriate topics for Mr. Butler's consideration in the revision

wt of the questionnaire. We shall appreciate whatever help you can give us In this
regard.

S. $n the meantime, as soon as all of Mr, Butler's current correspondence
‘been properly filed, we expect ta extract the spprooriate information from

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the folders and to present the material in a series of 69-3 reports

LLOYD A, RAY

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